🚨A 78 year old man was attacked by 4 Muslims on Friday Night walking his dog past a Mosque in Dundee
He was told not to walk his dog near the Mosque during Eid when the youths attacked him
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John Lindop, 23, from #Epworth, #Lincolnshire, and Lucy Melrose, 23, from #Ferryhill, #CountyDurham – killed a 12-week-old puppy (pictured top right) by hanging him from a door and bludgeoning him with a hammer and abused many other animals in a campaign of horrific gratuitous cruelty. Lindop now has a baby on the way!
"Toxic" former couple Lindop and Melrose were convicted of a litany of cruelty offences against several animals. Their crimes included killing a puppy and burning the remains, systematically beating a second dog, riding a small lame pony and setting a dog on a chicken while filming the carnage.
It was said in court that the pair were in a tempestuous relationship and took out their frustrations on their pets.
They appeared at #Durham Crown Court on Friday 16 February 2024 and were given suspended prison sentences and 15-year bans.
The crimes came to light following an RSPCA investigation led by Inspector Clare Wilson, which spanned two years and involved multiple animals.
The charity was first alerted to the couple in February 2022 when a member of the public contacted the RSPCA after bringing Max, a lurcher they had recently rehomed, into the PDSA #Gateshead with injuries to his abdomen, and blood in his urine.
Inspector Clare Wilson said: “Max was very subdued and withdrawn, he was hanging his head and was attached to drips when I first saw him.
“I immediately noticed that his muzzle was very swollen as was his right side near his shoulder. There was blood visible in the white of his right eye too. I was told that he had been weeing blood.
“There was bruising visible on his abdomen and sheath and there were blood marks on his legs and I saw old scars on his rear legs near his feet.
"His nails were not scuffed as we would expect if he had been hit by a car so the vet told me that they thought he had been beaten or kicked.”
The member of the public who brought the dog into the vets had rehomed him from Melrose and Lindop the day before and she had brought the lurcher to the vets as soon as she realised he was injured.
When interviewed, Melrose claimed that Lindop had, “kicked him like a football and stamped on his head.”
It was later revealed that during the investigation, the couple had hid other dogs from the RSPCA, including a lurcher called Bambi and a German Shepherd dog called Tally.
Melrose later showed these dogs to the RSPCA’s investigating officer. Tally was underweight and her right ear was crooked and inflamed with a severe ear infection.
Melrose’s phone was seized and found to contain shocking videos depicting more animal welfare offences. This included Bambi being baited and set on a chicken. Lindop claimed Melrose was responsible for this but “accepted he found it funny at the time, but did not know if the chicken had died as he had gone to the chip shop”.
A series of other videos on her phone showed Melrose riding a Shetland pony called Dinky who was struggling under the weight of carrying her and was clearly lame in one leg.
The 16-second video showed her hitting the pony with a stick 10 times.
The pony tries to avoid having to move forward and only moves forward at a trot once she has been repeatedly smacked with the whip and this is due to the fear and pain of being hit. The mouth of the pony is often open due to her discomfort and the pony is visibly lame on the right forelimb.
Text messages between Lindop and his mother were also discovered in which he asks “If a dog’s been hit and nearly dead am I not in the right to finish it off so it’s not in pain or does that mean I killed it?”.
With the reply: “She killed it, you put it out its misery but you would both get done as should have been done by a vet humanely.”
Lindop then replied to his mother: “Won’t find it now like coz burnt it (sic).”
RSPCA inspectors later found the charred remains of 12-week-old Welsh herder Hades close to a railway line in an area of scrubland in ##Hordon, #Peterlee. There were burnt patches on the ground and fragments of the puppy's bones.
Lindop claimed in graphic detail that Melrose had killed him whilst Melrose told investigators that Lindop had “hung him from a door until he was brain dead.”
The prosecution said they were unable to say who killed Hades but the method of his death was “sadistic” and involved the pup being hung from a door and killed with a hammer.
Lindop admitted two counts each of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and permitting or failing to stop unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Melrose admitted the same charges plus one of causing an animal fight to take place by baiting a chicken with a dog.
In mitigation, the court heard how the pair had challenging backgrounds and it was felt that rehabilitation is possible, given their young age.
Philip Morley, for Lindop, said he was, “not a sophisticated man”, having had “limited education” and is thought to suffer with an undiagnosed learning difficulty.
Mr Morley said at one stage Lindop formed a relationship with Melrose which he described as “toxic” and for which there is no prospect of any reconciliation.
“Both have now moved on and he has a new life in #Gainsborough, working with his step-father in roofing and window cleaning.”
He added that his client did not accept responsibility for the death of Hades, for which he has shown “genuine upset and remorse.”
Katie Spence, for Melrose, said her previous employment involved working with animals, but the entire experience of what went on during her relationship with Lindop has put her off any future involvement, regardless of the punishment and bars put on her by the court.
Judge Peter Armstrong also mentioned "mental health issues" and commented that Lindop was now in a secure relationship with a baby on the way.
He said due to their age, their immaturity, and lack of previous offences, he was “just” able to suspend the inevitable prison sentences on both defendants.
He said, given the volatile relationship the pair were involved in, “I suspect you were taking out your frustrations on these animals in your welfare.”
He said he would not try to pinpoint who was primarily responsible for, “this catalogue of most unpleasant offending.”
Speaking after the sentencing hearing, RSPCA Inspector Clare Wilson, said: “This has been the most challenging case of my career so far and has been extremely distressing to investigate. It is clear that many animals suffered untold pain and mental torture at the hands of these defendants and I am immensely relieved that they will not be permitted to care for animals again for a long time.”
The RSPCA said Dinky was owned by a third party and is doing better now after recovering from her mistreatment. The dogs were brought into the care of RSPCA Felledge Animal Centre in #ChesterleStreet where they have now been rehomed.
Sentencing | each were given 16-month prison sentences, suspended for two years. Both will undergo 40 days of rehabilitation and Lindop was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. Both were disqualified from keeping all animals for 15 years.
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TEDDY, an adored white Male Maltese went missing on Tuesday 18th June, ran off in Finsbury Park, London N4 - he was seen leaving the park, but then nothing!!!
DOGS DON'T JUST DISAPPEAR
If you've seen TEDDY anywhere, or a dog you think could be him, please make contact asap!
The iconic Titanic building has been one of the finest additions to Belfast’s architecture in recent years.
It is nothing short of vandalism to see it being surrounded with concrete cubes that obliterate it from the city’s skyline.
Shame on the houses of those who allowed this.